On 10/14/2014 at 04:35 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 14 oct 14, 09:55:55, The Wanderer wrote: > >> I could, but that would have to be re-done on every upgrade of the >> package, and doing it on every machine where I'm likely to want to >> work in a root shell would be a pain at best - and doing it on just >> some of them would result in my tripping over the inconsistency >> when I happen to use one where it hasn't been done, which defeats >> the entire point. > > dpkg-divert(8) That's a thought; I thought there might be a way of doing something like this, but I couldn't think of one or dig one up. It's still not a perfect solution for a few reasons, but I'll look into doing it that way, and see whether it works well enough for my purposes. Thanks for the suggestion! -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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